I’ve tried many things before, but in the past couple days I’ve found that eating a packet or two of mustard tends to get rid of hiccups.
What sort of tricks do you folks have?
Easy! Just disbelieve them!
Say the following out loud:
Hiccups are a spasm of the diaphragm
A spasm is defined as a random tensing of a muscle
If the hiccups are random, they will not appear in a pattern
Therefore these hiccups do not exist.
If you hiccup part way through, you have to start over. Once you get through the whole thing, your hiccups are cured.
Ok, now hear me out. This isn’t just a joke, I’ve had at least two people that I hadn’t seen in years call me up and say, I need you to tell me the hiccup cure, now!
My best theory as to why it works, is that you’re focusing on repeating the words fast enough, and/or it makes you breath irregularly and breaks the hiccups. Or maybe it’s just the magical power of the mind! Oooooooooh!
Oh. It never works when you’re drunk. I don’t know why, but drink hiccups seem to be resistant to the method.
There’s something about focus or attention. If I hiccup, as soon as I realize it’s happening it stops. If I’m drunk I might not notice for a bit and the hiccups will continue until I can bring my will to bear on them.
You can also just memorize and recite this, comes in handy for more than just hiccups:
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
All the mythological cures rely on one specific thing: focusing on a task or overriding your brain’s autonomic systems with adrenaline (get scared). Don’t think about it and do something else with as much concentration as you can will. Sorry if you’re ADHD.
Yeah, I’m probably ADHD, and not easily scared. Hell, I handle snakes and spiders and shit sometimes. Good luck scaring me…
You’ll never own a home or save enough for retirement. The entire planet is under incredible stress and we’re literally making it uninhabitable for ourselves. Your tax dollars often go towards killing innocent people in other countries. You may have left the oven on.
If that didn’t do it, I’m out of ideas.
Trying that fear factor approach I see. Well thank you for the thought, but I’m not easily scared, and that trick doesn’t seem to work for me anyways.
Go for a run or cold shower. Get your heart rate up, similar effect.
The only trick that worked for me was this.
Had been hiccuping for probably 5 minutes. Nothing working. Someone came up to me and just said “hiccup for me now” just waited for that hiccup. Kept asking for me to hiccup for maybe 30 seconds to a minute. Gone. No more hiccups.
He’s a witch!
Hold my breath while thinking of a soothing song. Alternatively, actively try to hiccup.
The weirdest one I’ve tried that works is take your pinky finger and just barely, almost imperceptivly, rub your ear lobe with it. The only reason I can think of why it works is because you focus on not touching your ear too hard or too soft and just… Forget to hiccup? 🤷🏻♂️
Have an upvote for the advice, but that ain’t working for me right now. Sometimes the mustard trick seems to work for a couple hours or so, but that’s hit and miss as well.
I dunno, guess I’m gonna pack a bowl of green and see if that helps… 🤷♂️
Update: I went and smoked a bowl of weed. My hiccups turned into a spell of about a dozen sneezes. Now I’m good, no more hiccups or sneezes haha!
Smoking (green or otherwise) is also supposedly a way to stop hiccups. It can, however, also cause them in the first place. I usually find the latter more true than the former, personally. 😅
All seem to be temporary solutions, now the hiccups are back ☹️
I get terrible hiccups. Painful terrible. Have since i was a kid. And they make a weirder sound than usual, if I’m in public people always whip their heads around to look at me. Anyway, pickles. When I’m hiccuping nothing has ever worked but then, once I started making my own pickles, I can now just eat a single pickle and be good. They’ll be gone. I’m just glad I like pickles now.
Nothing. Just wait, it’ll go away by itself eventually. Everything else is just a placebo.
Not nitrous! That will absolutely fix them. But not everyone is into doing nitrous.
It’s been like 3 days. Waiting it out doesn’t help me sleep at all.
Ok that’s not normal hiccups anymore. You should see a doctor.
Nah, it’s just been that they would randomly come and go. They’re gone now, I don’t think they’ll start back anytime soon thankfully.
Take a glass of water, bend over forward, drink from the opposite side of the glass while your head is upside down. Drink the whole thing. Cured!
This is it, although I just put the water in my mouth and bend over then swallow. Swallowing water while upside down = 100% cure.
Just quickly drinking a full glass of water usually does the trick
I used to do this with a straw while head was upside down. Worked really well when I was younger but haven’t tried it recently.
I do the thing where you drink water while rubbing your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Success rate is pretty low tbh.
Tablespoon of pickle juice. You’re then going to have the urge to eat a pickle. Don’t do it - they’ll come back.
A shot of vinegar or lemon juice will also do it in my experience
I usually just breathe in as much as I can and hold my breath until I need another gasp of air. It usually goes away after two or three times.
Lying on your back and pressing your knees to your chest is another way to get them to stop that works for me.
The holding your breath thing works. You inhale as much as you can, which stretches your diaphragm out, and hold it as long as you can, even through the next few hiccups. Works like a charm.
Swallow a pinch of salt. Don’t let it dissolve on your tongue; just swallow.
A lot of times hiccups are caused by your brain thinking that it needs more oxygen. So breathe deeply. Sometimes it works.
get warm and eat a little snack
Mouthful of water, then fingers in both ears and swallow.
For me I get a >90% success rate
I find that a sudden, deep diaphragmatic gasp and holding it for 20-30 seconds does it for me. But it needs to be harsh, otherwise it doesn’t work.
